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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...increase the security and happiness of a larger number of people in all occupations of life and in all parts of the country; to give them more of the good things of life, to give them a greater distribution, not only of wealth in the narrow terms, but of wealth in the wider terms; to give them places to go in the summer time-recreation; to give them assurance that they are not going to starve in their old age; to give honest business a chance to go ahead and make a reasonable profit, and to give every...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Citizen of Zion | 3/14/1938 | See Source »

...spoke by means of a number alphabet, one bark for a, two for b, three for c, as far as 16 for p; then backwards, ten for q, nine for r, to one for z. If there was doubt, Kurwenal was asked "Backwards?" or "Forward?" "Yes," he would say with one bark; or "No," with two. Among his intellectual feats...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Intentionally Witty | 3/14/1938 | See Source »

Five times president of the New York Stock Exchange and once czar of Wall Street, Richard Whitney entered Harvard at the age of twenty, having graduated from Groton, where he rowed and played football. His first year he rowed number four on the Freshman crew, and in 1910, as a Sophomore, he made the varsity crew, rowing...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: While at Harvard Richard Whitney, Former Wall Street King, Was Popular, Declares Classmate | 3/12/1938 | See Source »

Dudley Talbot at present leads the pack in the close number three race with Pete Brooks and Phil Hallowell close behind. Hallowell has been sick for quite a while and may have some trouble getting back in the running but he was good on the Freshman boat a year ago. Dick Both is also coming along well and may do a lot before the last judgement comes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lining Them Up | 3/10/1938 | See Source »

...broadcast was arranged by the CRIMSON with the cooperation of the Yale Athletic Association. Announcer will be Jerry Harrison, of the Colonial network, who broadcast the Harvard-Yale swimming meet last year and who has broadcast a number of Harvard-Yale hockey series in the past...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: YALE SWIM MEET SATURDAY NIGHT TO BE BROADCAST | 3/10/1938 | See Source »

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